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27 Jan 2010

Art Museum Super Bowl Trash Talk

Exactly what the subject says. Directors of art museums in both Indianapolis and New Orleans are trading burns and bets.

Posted by: Bill Barnwell on 27 Jan 2010

17 comments, Last at 29 Jan 2010, 10:36am by Paul R

Comments

1
by Kal :: Wed, 01/27/2010 - 2:17pm

That was totally awesome.

2
by Levente from Hungary :: Wed, 01/27/2010 - 2:22pm

I don't know much about painting but I'm sure Indianapolis could send Curtis Painter any time.

5
by alexbond :: Wed, 01/27/2010 - 2:51pm

High five for that one

3
by Kevin :: Wed, 01/27/2010 - 2:27pm

Who says football is for uncultured brutes. That's fantastic, and makes the various gov/mayor bets look silly.

4
by Dean :: Wed, 01/27/2010 - 2:29pm

I know I'm supposed to be nauseated by Super Bowl Hype, but I couldn't help but enjoy that one. Well done.

6
by Temo :: Wed, 01/27/2010 - 2:56pm

I am amused that Renoir is too sweet for Indianapolis. Does this mean that those Indiana corn farmers have simpler tastes?

That was all sorts of win.

7
by Francisco (not verified) :: Wed, 01/27/2010 - 3:32pm

My favorite was "Sorry but we have no farm scenes or portraits of football players to send you."

And those two will look awesome hanging together. In Indianapolis.

appropriate captcha: "rumble recent"

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by andrew :: Wed, 01/27/2010 - 3:48pm

Its too bad the Vikigns didn't make it. They could have offered the giant Paul Bunyan statue as a wager.

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by Bobman :: Wed, 01/27/2010 - 4:38pm

As a Colts fan AND someone who really enjoyed his Romantic Art seminar two decades ago, I agree that this is awesome! A big John Martin oil would have worked, too.

The NOMA director should thank his lucky stars the Jets lost--the Met could kick NOMA's ass, and then drop the Temple of Dendur on them in case they lost.

Okay, screw mayors; this is much more interesting than crab cakes versus some sausage or cheese steak. Or from Seattle, the ever-original...

...wait for it, you'll never guess...

...not in a million years....

...salmon! Like nobody's ever had THAT before. And in February, it's not even fresh!

(Let SAM bet their giant hammering man statue next time the Seahawks make the SB. 30 feet tall and motorized. THAT would be epic.)

10
by bubqr :: Wed, 01/27/2010 - 6:21pm

That was fantastic !

Is "Geaux Saints" supposed to be "Go Saints" in a french looking way ? If so, that's quite funny, because Geaux is pronounced "Jo" in french, not "Go".

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by Keith (1) (not verified) :: Wed, 01/27/2010 - 6:30pm

Yes, and I hate it too.

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by whodat :: Thu, 01/28/2010 - 11:41pm

It started with the Univ of La (ne USL) Rajun Cajuns: Geaux Cajuns. Then LSU ripped it off, and now NO.

In related news, now that the NFL is claiming the copyright to "who dat," some are proposing "whoux dat."

11
by Kevin from Philly :: Wed, 01/27/2010 - 6:28pm

I'll wait until Dan Brown comes out with the book. Here's the plot line:

Peyton Manning discovers that his father Archie is the last of the Knights Templar, and that their treasure is hidden in the bowels of the Indianapolis MOA - apparently in an effort to fool thieves by placing it as far away from civilization as possible. Peyton swears an oath to his father to protect the secret at all costs.

His nemesis is his own brother Eli, who's attempting to uncover the secret organization that has the power to make world leaders tremble and footballs stick to helemts.

Eli teams with the raven haired Deanna, on a quest to attain the Templars' most dangerous secret for her husband before he sinks into oblivion - the legendary Fountain of Decisiveness.

The action comes to head when two unsuspecting museum curators make a deadly Super Bowl wager: a valuable painting containing the secret coded messages from the past, that threaten to make a gunslinging quarterback immortal. Or make soccer popular in America, nobody's really sure. It all comes down to who finds the mysterious linebacker who travels the world in search of clues to the meaning of the painting's message.

Coming this summer from bestselling author Dan Brown:

"The Dhani Code"

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by HostileGospel :: Wed, 01/27/2010 - 9:13pm

I'd watch the movie. Well, when it came out on DVD, anyway.

--
Overall, I'd be kind of embarrassed to critique something when I didn't know what the hell I was talking about, but then, oh yeah, my NAME is on what I write, isn't it?

-Les Bowen

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by Agamemnon :: Wed, 01/27/2010 - 7:58pm

Go JMW Turner!

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by Mr Shush :: Wed, 01/27/2010 - 10:13pm

I don't know much about art, but I know what I like. And it's Turner.

Well, Turner and crazy-ass Russian religious paintings with skeletons crawling out of the mouths of mutated fish-dogs and stuff. Those are awesome. If Perm ever gets an expansion franchise, in like 2087, bets like this could get really interesting.

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by Paul R :: Fri, 01/29/2010 - 10:36am

IMA should put up their James Turrell. It's the most bitchin' thing there.

http://artshard.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/ima-its-my-art/

(scroll down)

If you've never seen one, go. It's cool. I love taking my kids there.

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